Professor Fang Kai-Tai is a reputable statistician. He was elected as life Fellow by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS) in 1992 and life Fellow by the American Statistical Association (ASA) in 2001 as well as Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute (ISI) in 1985. Professor Fang visited Yale University and Stanford University for two years and was invited as a Guest Professor in the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology and a Visiting Professor in the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He was a Vice Director of the Institute of Applied Mathematics, Academia Sinica (now known as Chinese Academy of Sciences), Beijing from 1984 to 1992. He had been Chair Professor of Department of Mathematics, Hong Kong Baptist University from 1993 to January 2006, Director of Statistics Research and Consultancy Centre from 1992 to 2005 and Head of the department from 2002 to 2005.
His research interests are in statistics and mathematics, more specifically, in experimental design, multivariate analysis and data mining. He has been a productive author and has published 24 books (including 5 monographs in English), near 300 referred papers. He was the co-inventor of the uniform experimental design, which is used by engineers to expedite product development. He developed new methods for inference in generalised multivariate analysis.
Professor Fang has received a number of awards, including 2008 the State Natural Science Award at the Second Level with Wang Yuan, 2012 Guangdong Excellent Teacher by the Guangdong government, 2012 Zhuhai Advanced Teachers by the Zhuhai government, and 2014 ICSA Distinguished Achievement Award.
